Kindle Posts Minstrel’s Alley Book, The Guys Who Spied for China
(Los Angeles) “The Guys Who Spied for China,” by Gordon Basichis has just been posted on Kindle, Amazon’s EBook publishing arm. The novel is based on his real life experiences uncovering Chinese Espionage Networks operating in the United States in the eighties and nineties. “The Guys Who Spied for China,” is being published by Minstrel’s [...]
New Video Artist Cut of Tron, Featuring Cheech and Chong
Artist Cut of Tron starring Cheech and Chong. Source: www.youtube.com A psychedelic, economic melt down remake of the 1982 sci-fi groundbreaker “Tron.” Starring Cheech and Chong. “I don’t think you should watch anything like that straight. It’ll have lasting, traumatic …
Women in History and the Things We Don’t Know
Common long time fodder for comedians and pundits alike is the threadbare cliche about how men don’t understand women. Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last century, you have been treated to a surfeit of sketches, the articles, and the stand up routines depicting women as mysterious creatures we simply can’t [...]
A Critical Passing of Cultural Critics
Our best critics are dying. And with it a form of writing and assessment of our cultural has been downgraded to a lower form. Where critics once served to educate their readers and point to new directions in our arts and culture, most criticism today is either boosterism or narcissism. It is a shame, really, [...]
Shakespeare in Ruins, The Old Theater is Found
A little more than a month ago, there were reports that an excavated vacant garage yielded the ruins of the original theater where Shakespeare’s plays were first performed. According to the reports, one featured in the Miami Herald, this is quite possibly the remnants of the theater where such masterpieces as The Merchant of Venice [...]